After threatening to strike on June 8, the union’s main focus was unity and solidarity heading to the bargaining table. It worked, and they secured wage hikes of up to 33 percent and ended a two-tier wage system.
“This is a revolutionary step forward for Pennsylvania that closes off a major threat to American self-government: foreign-influenced corporate political spending,” said MarchOnHarrisburg Executive Director Rabbi Michael Pollack.
“We can’t forget that democracy is not a spectator sport – it’s the difference between maintaining progress in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights and losing them,” said Fairness Pennsylvania State Director Sarah Hammond.
The PAC just endorsed 16 Pennsylvania candidates running for the state Senate and House.
Student climate justice activist Eliana Atienza shares how the campus organization is working to create change at the University of Pennsylvania.
The updated guide from the Brennan Center and All Voting is Local also notes existing laws prevent election deniers from disrupting elections by harassing, intimidating, or improperly influencing voters.
As the holiday has become mainstream, University of Pennsylvania Professor Kristen R. Ghodsee says #IWD has grown further away from its “socialist roots” and has “lost any association with its radical past.”
In Bucks County, around 71,000 workers would benefit from the wage hike, which accounts for 21 percent of the workforce.
Women’s Law Project Senior Staff Attorney Christine Castro says this provides “an opportunity to finally slam the door shut on the Medicaid ban” and “really safeguard the reproductive freedoms and autonomy rights of Pennsylvanians.”
The judge ruled that rejecting mail ballots for issues with the date on the outer envelope violates voters’ First Amendment rights, since voting is considered an expression of free speech.
“It is inconceivable that after decades of promises and political posturing, Congress has yet to pass a permanent solution for undocumented immigrants who entered the country as children and other undocumented people,” said Make the Road PA’s Armando Jiménez.
“Danny is a battle-tested patriot who represents the best of his generation. Bucks County will be safer with him as our Sheriff,” said former Bucks County Congressman Patrick Murphy.
We need a representative in Congress who engages not in sophistry, but in truth-telling, and one who has the courage to have in-person town halls open to all their constituents, writes Newtown’s Steve Cickay.
Locally, the cuts have already hacked away about one-third of the $800,000 the federal government had been sending to supplement Bucks County Opportunity Council programs like Fresh Connect.
